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THE

ENGLISH DRAMA

PURIFIED:

BEING A SPECIMEN OF

SELECT PLAYS,

IN WHICH

ALL THE PASSAGES THAT HAVE APPEARED TO THE EDITOR TO BE OBJECTIONABLE IN POINT OF

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BY JAMES PLUMPTRE, B. D.

FELLOW OF CLARE-HALL, CAMBRIDGE.

It is very possible, that Plays might be so framed, and governed by such rules, as not only to be innocently diverting, but instructing and useful, to put some vices and follies out of countenance, which cannot, perhaps, be so decently reproved, nor so effectually exposed and corrected any other way. See Archbp. Tillotson's Sermon on The Evil of Corrupt Communication.

VOL. II.

CONTAINING

THE PROVOK'D HUSBAND.

THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS.

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THE GOOD-NATURED MAN.
A WORD TO THE W(SF.

THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE.

CAMBRIDGE, PRINTED BY F. HODsgn:

And Sold by F. C. and J. RIVINGTON, No. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, and
J. HATCHARD, No. 190, PICCADILLY, LONDON; and J. DEIGHTON, and
J NICHOLSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

1812.

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Sir J. VANBRUGH, and COLLEY CIBBER, Esq.

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